So apparently a human life is worth less than the price of an illegal download..

Is there not anything mildly messed up about this?

By this conversation rate, she could probably just pay with 80 dead relatives.

I hate this nonsense where they make examples out of people.

She has to pay $1,920,000 wtf:o

I hate this nonsense where they make examples out of people.

SgtKevali

Err why?

That is nuts. 80,000 per download? And there are 24? Ho-ly jesus. I am totatly not going to go and get all my music for free for the next year because of this. No, I will go buy it from the store to let the record companies (or whoever) know what good a job they are doing combating piracy!

How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?Ryan51287

well there about 7 billion of us

How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?Ryan51287

They track the route of the problem not the symptoms.

▲ This is messed up and corrupt. I am angry. ▲

[QUOTE="Ryan51287"]How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?GHlegend77

That's typical cold-hearted corporations for you.

[QUOTE="GHlegend77"][QUOTE="Ryan51287"]How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?Ryan51287

Eh, faulty comparison. The Air France deal in no way indicates the value of a human life.

If you find the whole story she was fined $20k a year earlier for the same thing. It's more of a "didn't learn her lesson" than a "they took her life" story.Ryan51287

[QUOTE="Ryan51287"]If you find the whole story she was fined $20k a year earlier for the same thing. It's more of a "didn't learn her lesson" than a "they took her life" story.waffle57

If you find the whole story she was fined $20k a year earlier for the same thing. It's more of a "didn't learn her lesson" than a "they took her life" story.Ryan51287

I thought it was just a retrial? not that she got caught twice

[QUOTE="waffle57"][QUOTE="Ryan51287"]If you find the whole story she was fined $20k a year earlier for the same thing. It's more of a "didn't learn her lesson" than a "they took her life" story.Ryan51287

[QUOTE="GHlegend77"][QUOTE="Ryan51287"]How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?Ryan51287

I just told you, she was not actually convicted of downloading but of sharing...

How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?Ryan51287

ISPs look for the most downloaded hits, ie. new Lady Gaga, Bieber, etc. So unless you have decent tastes in music, you won't likely get caught if you aren't downloading excessively.

However I'm not recomminding anyone to download illegally ;)

The lady had to pay so much because she was uploading/providing/sharing files. Assuming a ton of people did download the files she uploaded, I can understand the large amount. But still, $80,000 seems like a ton per song.

I don't know the exact figures, but if each song costs roughly $1, that means they are assuming 80,000 people downloaded each song she uploaded. But who knows. In actuality, millions of people may have downloaded the files she uploaded.

Corporations don't give a damn about human lives. If any falls, there'll be thousands ready to replace them.

Obviously, she can't pay the money. So, I'm assuming that she'll have to serve jail time? If so, how long?

[QUOTE="Ryan51287"]How does this woman get caught out of all the people that do it?WushuFighter

ISPs look for the most downloaded hits, ie. new Lady Gaga, Bieber, etc. So unless you have decent tastes in music, you won't likely get caught if you aren't downloading excessively.

However I'm not recomminding anyone to download illegally ;)

I personally buy all of my music from the I-tunes Music Store. Since getting my I-pod touch back in February-2009, I've purchased over $300.00 worth of music. It's worth the money considering that you can download songs that run at 320 KB/s. That's darn good quality.

The fuss over downloading is blown WAY out of proportion, and the actions taken are loads worse than the actual downloading.

Tracking down individuals isn't helping combating piracy at all, they're just wasting more money. They must be butt **** down stupid to think she is willing to pay 80k for each download. What does that result? Jail time. What does that mean? Wasting taxes on something stupid.

That's stupid, they should just make her pay how much each download was worth and delete the songs she downloaded.

Now why is it that every one being caught for bad stuff looking the same? I suspect racism.

I could donate to her a couple of my dead relatives to help cover the cost.

I hate this nonsense where they make examples out of people.

SgtKevali

I really don't get why people have to pay utterly absurd amounts that do not fit the crime. Why do companies and the jury get to say "You have to pay eleventy billion dollars!"

That isn't justice. I'd personally like to see judges instantly toss out of court any civil case that involves someone being sued for an amount FAR above what should be asked.

Tracking down individuals isn't helping combating piracy at all, they're just wasting more money. They must be butt **** down stupid to think she is willing to pay 80k for each download. What does that result? Jail time. What does that mean? Wasting taxes on something stupid.

Gaming-Planet

It's not like this will remotely harm piracy anyway. They make an example of her. The average pirate thinks "Wow....they've sued 10 people this year....there are probably about a billion illegal downloads a year....statisticly it is almost impossible to be caught".

Of course one can get caught. But the fact of the matter is that statisticly you probably have a higher chance of being struck by lightning 30 times and then hit by a meteor while a super volcano explodes and terrorists crash the moon on you.

"What a sick world"

I really don't get why people have to pay utterly absurd amounts that do not fit the crime. Why do companies and the jury get to say "You have to pay eleventy billion dollars!"

That isn't justice. I'd personally like to see judges instantly toss out of court any civil case that involves someone being sued for an amount FAR above what should be asked.

Pixel-Pirate

The law in question was designed to combat large-scale commercial piracy, and to do so in both a compensatory and deterring manner. While it may be unfair in the case of casual piracy, the fact remains that it is the applicable law and anyone found in violation of it must be punished accordingly.

As for the judge and jury the case is far more nuanced than Thomas simply being forced to pay $1,920,000 in damages. For the jury, not only was Thomas obviously guilty but she totally refused to accept responsibility for her actions, even going so far as to imply that her children may have been at fault. As for the judge, he slashed the damages from $1,920,000 to $54,000, calling the original figure "monstrous and shocking" and suggesting that even the $54,000 figure was too high, but that to go any lower would be to go against the jury's verdict.

I figure she may as well keep downloading because what could they do to her? Sue her again for even more money that she can't pay them because she doesn't have it?

If someone sues you and you don't have the money to pay them it really doesn't mean anything. For the amount of money they want she will be paying it off for the rest of her life. So it's just another bill. So **** them. Like I said, what can they do? Add to a bill she will never pay off as it already is?

Can't wait for the RIAA and MPAA to go under!GeForce2187